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1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.2.314157446US Navy Investigate Sky Penishttp://thefreaky.net/us-navy-investigate-sky-penis/
http://thefreaky.net/us-navy-investigate-sky-penis/#respondFri, 17 May 2019 16:33:58 +0000http://thefreaky.net/?p=3812The US Navy have investigated a bizarre incident in which a fighter jet pilot draw a huge penis in the sky with the exhaust contrails of his plane. The incident in 2017 became an interent sensation when the image was captured by amateur photograhers. Now more details have emerged about the story of the shocking

The US Navy have investigated a bizarre incident in which a fighter jet pilot draw a huge penis in the sky with the exhaust contrails of his plane.

The incident in 2017 became an interent sensation when the image was captured by amateur photograhers. Now more details have emerged about the story of the shocking image, after the US Navy’s official invetsigaton report has been made public.

The report, obtained by The Navy Times in a Freedom of Information request, reveals that the rude sky art was the work of two junior officers of Electronic Attack Squadron 130, created during flight practice time over the skies of north-central Washington.

The pilots created the bizarre art work as a jape, not planning on the image lingering in the sky as long as it did.

A transcript of their conversation, captured on their cockpit video recording system, makes interesting reading.

Executive Warrant Officer (EWO): “Draw a giant penis, that would be awesome.”

Pilot: “What did you do on your flight? Oh, we turned dinosaurs into sky penises.”

EWO: “You should totally try to draw a penis,”

Pilot: “I could definitely draw one, that would be easy, I could basically draw a figure eight and turn around and come back. I’m gonna go down, grab some speed and hopefully get out of the contrail layer so they’re not connected to each other.”

Pilot: “Dude, that would be so funny. Airliner’s coming back on their way into Seattle, just this big (expletive)ing, giant penis. We could almost draw a vein in the middle of it too.”

Pilot: “Balls are going to be a little lopsided,” the pilot advised.

Moments later.

Pilot: “Balls are complete. I just gotta navigate a little bit over here for the shaft.”

EWO: “Which way is the shaft going?”

Pilot: “The shaft will go to the left,”

EWO:“It’s gonna be a wide shaft,”

Pilot: “I don’t wanna make it just like 3 balls,”

EWO:“Let’s do it. Oh, the head of that penis is going to be thick.”

Pilot: “Some like Chinese weather satellite right now that’s like, ‘what the (expletive)?’”

According to the Navy investigation, the crude sky joke was conducted in spare flight time, after their official training had finished.

As the lieutenants did not have any previous disciplinary issues, the investigation recommended they receive “non-punitive letters of instruction.”

“While the sky writing conducted by (the lieutenants) was crude, immature, and unprofessional,” concludes the report, “ it was not premeditated or planned and not in keeping with their character demonstrated prior to the incident,” the investigator wrote.“Even so, it has caused the United States Navy severe embarrassment in the public arena and jeopardizes the strategic narrative that underpins the justification of the flight hour program.”

]]>http://thefreaky.net/us-navy-investigate-sky-penis/feed/03812The Delivery Bar where men can experience the pain of child birthhttp://thefreaky.net/the-delivery-bar-where-men-can-experience-the-pain-of-child-birth/
http://thefreaky.net/the-delivery-bar-where-men-can-experience-the-pain-of-child-birth/#respondThu, 25 Apr 2019 13:31:09 +0000http://thefreaky.net/?p=3799Are you a man and want to know what giving birth feels like? Well there is a Delivery Bar in China where men can experience the pain of child birth. According to Twitter, the Delivery Bar is located in a shopping mall in an unspecified Chinese city. Hooked up to sensers, users get a computer

Well there is a Delivery Bar in China where men can experience the pain of child birth.

According to Twitter, the Delivery Bar is located in a shopping mall in an unspecified Chinese city. Hooked up to sensers, users get a computer simulated experience of the pain of child birth contractions. It might only be a fake birth but the pain is very real.

]]>http://thefreaky.net/the-delivery-bar-where-men-can-experience-the-pain-of-child-birth/feed/03799The gorillas who stand up like humanshttp://thefreaky.net/the-gorillas-who-stand-up-like-humans/
http://thefreaky.net/the-gorillas-who-stand-up-like-humans/#respondTue, 23 Apr 2019 08:19:32 +0000http://thefreaky.net/?p=3790Two gorillas at a sanctuary in Africa have learnt to imitate humans by standing on two legs. The two standing gorillas, who were photographed posing for a selfie, live at a gorilla orphanage in Virunga National Park, Democratic Republic of Congo. The two gorillas were brought to the Senkwekwe Sanctuary orphanage and raised by the

Two gorillas at a sanctuary in Africa have learnt to imitate humans by standing on two legs.

The two standing gorillas, who were photographed posing for a selfie, live at a gorilla orphanage in Virunga National Park, Democratic Republic of Congo.

The two gorillas were brought to the Senkwekwe Sanctuary orphanage and raised by the rangers after their parents were killed by poachers in July 2007. The pair were just two and four months old at the time of their parents deaths.

Gorillas normally walk on their two legs and two arms but the park’s deputy director Innocent Mburanumwe, says the gorillas view the rangers, who rescued them, as their parents and standing up is their way of imitating them and “learning to be human beings”.

]]>http://thefreaky.net/the-gorillas-who-stand-up-like-humans/feed/03790The Lady Who Lives in a Glass Boxhttp://thefreaky.net/the-lady-who-lives-in-a-glass-box/
http://thefreaky.net/the-lady-who-lives-in-a-glass-box/#respondSun, 21 Apr 2019 07:56:26 +0000http://thefreaky.net/?p=3696A Spanish woman suffering from a strange and rare medical condition has spent over 13 years living inside a 25 meter glass box, unable to hug her husband or her children. 53 year old Juana Munoz from Cadiz, Spain Juana is suffering from a combination of rare medical conditions that include: chronic fatigue syndrome, chemical sensitivity,

A Spanish woman suffering from a strange and rare medical condition has spent over 13 years living inside a 25 meter glass box, unable to hug her husband or her children.

53 year old Juana Munoz from Cadiz, Spain Juana is suffering from a combination of rare medical conditions that include: chronic fatigue syndrome, chemical sensitivity, electro-sensitivity, and fibromyalgia.

By encasing herself in her glass prison, Juana can stabilize her condition, which she believes is made worse by man-made chemicals in the air. Juana says anytime she comes into contact with certain chemicals she suffers a severe allergic reaction, that leads to vomiting, fatigue and asphyxia. So to prevent this, she has chosen to confine herself to her sterile glass cage, lovingly cared for by her husband Manuel.

According to Juana, she started feeling sick 29 years ago when she came in contact with an anti-germinating agent on some potatoes being grown by her husband Manuel. Soon after, her eyes started itching and her tongue became swollen. Juanita’s physical condition continued to get worse, and she eventually found herself in hospital in intensive care. She says that her body swelled up so much she looked “like a monster.”

Juana can only receive visitors inside her glass box if they follow a very strict procedure. They must shower with natural products only, and wear only organic cotton clothes. As a consequence she rarely has physical touch with anyone. Her two children only hug her twice a year.

“The worst thing about living like this is not the pain, it is the physical and psychological damage of not being able to go out and live a normal life with loved ones,” says Juana.

Her words were recorded by a Spanish newspaper. The microphone was passed to her inside several plastic bags to prevent her being contaminated.

]]>http://thefreaky.net/the-lady-who-lives-in-a-glass-box/feed/03696Huge Fart Halts Snooker Matchhttp://thefreaky.net/huge-fart-halts-snooker-match/
http://thefreaky.net/huge-fart-halts-snooker-match/#respondMon, 11 Mar 2019 10:40:03 +0000http://thefreaky.net/?p=3784The game of snooker requires skill, concentration and quiet. But one audience member at a snooker tournament was unable to contain his silence, and when he let rip with a huge bottom burp, he temporarily brought the game to a halt. The phantom farter left the crowd in stitches and even raised a smile from

The game of snooker requires skill, concentration and quiet. But one audience member at a snooker tournament was unable to contain his silence, and when he let rip with a huge bottom burp, he temporarily brought the game to a halt.

The phantom farter left the crowd in stitches and even raised a smile from the two players – the perfectly named Judd Trump and Ronnie O’Sullivan.

]]>http://thefreaky.net/huge-fart-halts-snooker-match/feed/03784Man cooks and eats his own leg with his friendshttp://thefreaky.net/man-cooks-and-eats-his-own-leg-with-his-friends/
http://thefreaky.net/man-cooks-and-eats-his-own-leg-with-his-friends/#commentsSun, 10 Feb 2019 16:04:11 +0000http://thefreaky.net/?p=3762A 38 year old man who had his leg amputated after an accident cooked the remains of his lost leg and served it to his friends as a Mexican dish. This sounds like a made up story but it appears to be strange but true. The man who prefers to remain anonymous first admitted his

A 38 year old man who had his leg amputated after an accident cooked the remains of his lost leg and served it to his friends as a Mexican dish.

The Mexican containing peppers, onions and human flesh.

This sounds like a made up story but it appears to be strange but true. The man who prefers to remain anonymous first admitted his bizarre meal in a Reddit post under the user name IncrediblyShinyShart, complete with photographic evidence, and has since expanded upon it in an interview.

IncrediblyShinyShart’s strange story began with a motorcycle accident. He was riding on a road through a forest when he was hit by a car that sent him flying into the surrounding trees.

“I remember flying through the air,” recalls Shiny. “I remember getting hit. I remember sitting in the forest and taking off my helmet and feeling this burning pain. I looked down and my foot was hanging off. The picture of the foot all broken and mangled and dirty was on the ambulance.”

Doctors
tried to save his leg but it was too badly damged by the accident.

“I remember waking up in the hospital many times and just crying, wondering what my life was going to be. I talked with the doctor about what we could do, what was salvageable. But there were bones missing and everything else was garbage. I would never be able to walk on it again. Around a week in I decided to let them cut it off.”

Shiny’s leg after surgery

His only request was that he wanted to keep his discarded leg. This wasn’t a problem as most hospitals will hand over your removed body parts if you sign the appropriate paperwork.

My mom, who was helping me get back on my feet, so to speak, drove me back to pick it up. She doesn’t know I ate it, though. I went inside and the hospital gave me my foot in a red plastic biowaste bag. I brought it to the car and immediately put it in a cooler. It was pretty bizarre.

Originally I wanted to have it taxidermied or freeze-dried. How cool would it be to have my freeze-dried or taxidermied foot standing around the house as a lamp or a doorstop or something? All of this came out of the idea that it’s my foot. It’s not going to be cremated and chucked into a landfill. It’s a part of me, and I want it back.

Shiny
couldn’t find a taxidermist who would take his request seriously and he qs
quoted over a thousand dollars to freeze dry his leg so he decided to eat it
instead.

On Sunday, July 10, 2016, Shiny, invited 10 of his friends to a very special lunch.

“I invited 11 people. I said something like, “Remember how we always talked about how, if we ever had the chance to ethically eat human meat, would you do it? Well, I’m calling you on that. We doing this or what?” Ten said yes. I guess we’re a weird group.”

One of his friends’ boyfriend’s was a chef and he volunteered to do the actual cooking.

He
suggested they eat the foot as fajita tacos.

Much of Shiny’s limb was covered in iodine and formaldehyde but they managed to get a clean piece of muscle from his shin. The chef marinated the muscle overnight and sauteed it with onions, peppers, salt, pepper, and lime juice. Then he served it on corn tortillas with a tomatillo sauce.

Shiny’s amputated leg being prepared in the kitchen.

There was this queasy anticipation. We all looked at each other like, “We doing this, right? We’re doing this.” It had a very pronounced, beefy flavor to it. The muscle I cut was tough and chewy. It tasted good, but the experience wasn’t the best.

It’s taken me time to get comfortable with it. It’s pretty out there. I put it out on Reddit because it’s pretty much anonymous. I like the really outrageous stuff that some people post there, and I felt this was a way I could properly contribute to this community. What I did was technically not illegal. I didn’t sell it. I didn’t give it to people without their consent. It was mine. We couldn’t find any real laws against weird stuff like this.

So I’m not worried about legal stuff. I just don’t want to be known as that weird cannibal guy. It doesn’t really represent who I am.

]]>http://thefreaky.net/man-cooks-and-eats-his-own-leg-with-his-friends/feed/13762Human Pups: The men who like to dress up as dogshttp://thefreaky.net/human-pups/
http://thefreaky.net/human-pups/#commentsSun, 20 Jan 2019 07:38:52 +0000http://thefreaky.net/?p=2823The men that like to dress up as dogs and play with bones and squeaky toys. It might seem a little strange that a grown up man would want to put on a latex outfit and pretend to be a dog. But The Freaky salutes these “human pups”, who have found a way to make

The men that like to dress up as dogs and play with bones and squeaky toys.

It might seem a little strange that a grown up man would want to put on a latex outfit and pretend to be a dog. But The Freaky salutes these “human pups”, who have found a way to make sense of the world even if their behavior doesn’t make sense to the rest of the world.

Even though dressing up as a dog originally emerged from the BDSM scene, Tom, a British Human Pup, who works as a theatre engineer and goes by the pet name of Spot, says its more than a sexual kink. Tom/Spot says pretending to be an animal – being ear tickled , stomach rubbed, chewing dog toys and eating and drinking out of dog bowls – is a form of escapism.
“You’re not worrying about money, or food, or work, It’s just the chance to enjoy each other’s company on a very simple level.”

Tom/Spot at home with his former fiancee Rachel. Photograph: Richard Ansett/Channel 4

People become human pups for a variety of reasons, but on the whole they tend to be gay males. Tom came to the scene gradually, when he discovered he had a fetish for latex clothing. Then when he found a latex suit online he realized his true destiny – he split form his fiancé Rachel and moved in with his new “handler” Colin.

“I wouldn’t say it was the catalyst, but it was the straw that broke the camel’s back,” says Tom. “Then I had this moment of panic because a puppy without a collar is a stray; they don’t have anyone to look after them. I started chatting to Colin online and he offered to look after me. It’s a sad thing to say, but there’s not love from the heart in me for Colin – but what I have got is someone who is there for me and I’m happy with that.”

“It feels like you can be gay, straight, bisexual, trans and be accepted,” says Tom/Spot. “All I want is for the pup community to be accepted in the same way. We’re not trying to cause grief to the public, or cause grief to relationships. We’re just the same as any other person on the high street.”

]]>http://thefreaky.net/human-pups/feed/22823The Strange Creatures that wander a Dutch Beachhttp://thefreaky.net/beach-beasts/
http://thefreaky.net/beach-beasts/#commentsWed, 02 Jan 2019 10:08:21 +0000http://thefreaky.net/?p=1769For the last 20 years maverick Dutch artist Theo Jansen has been building strange and wonderful creatures in his shed and allowing them to wander the beaches of Holland. Theo Jansen’s remarkable inventions are part-vehicle part-artificial life. “I came up with the idea to build skeletons on the beach to save dunes – to

For the last 20 years maverick Dutch artist Theo Jansen has been building strange and wonderful creatures in his shed and allowing them to wander the beaches of Holland.

Theo Jansen’s remarkable inventions are part-vehicle part-artificial life.
“I came up with the idea to build skeletons on the beach to save dunes – to save us from the rise of the sea level,” he says. But Theo’s original idea for automated sand-shovelling vehicles soon morphed into something far more interesting – a new species of artificial life-form powered by nothing more than the wind. He christened them Strandbeests (dutch for Beach Beasts).

“A big advantage of the Strandbeest is that they don’t have to eat – they wait for the wind and use the wind as their energy source.”

Animaris Gubernare, Stille Strand (2011). Courtesy of Theo Jansen.

To bring his machines to life, Jansen first needed to source a material that was cheap, strong – and most importantly – light. He settled upon a simple yellow tube that is seen everywhere in Holland.

“This kind of tube are used for electricity lines so they are everywhere. All the kids in Holland know these tubes – they can blow paper darts into windows”

To an engineer they are just plastic tubes. To Theo, they’re his invention’s basic building blocks.These are the cells of the Strandbeest– fit them together you can make a structure….

Finding the right building blocks for this new life was one thing – but giving them their freedom was an even greater challenge. Theo’s love of theatre, coupled with his passion for artificial intelligence convinced him he could make his vehicles walk by themselves – but how?

“When I started this I didn’t know how to move the thing – rolling, gliding – then I came up with the idea of legs – to walk on the beach – that’s what you want.”

Theo got to work. If the vehicle was to move, it would require long legs which could stride, a body that remained stable and feet that wouldn’t sink in the sand.

But despite the brilliance of Dr Frankenstein’s – sorry Theo’s – design – it had one potential major flaw: if the wind disappeared, the beast would indeed be stranded…

So Theo got to work on his odd art project and designed them a wind stomach .

“The wings on top they pump air into lemonade bottles to a high pressure –and they can use this to survive the wind silences on the beach.”

But what if Theo’s self-animating creatures wander towards danger – the sea, for example? Well clever old Theo has thought of that too. He gave the creatures water sensitive antenna. “The water feeler sucks in air all the time – as soon as it arrives in the sea and sucks in the water and feels the resistance of the water and a switch goes over and the animal knows it is in the sea and they should run out the sea again.”

Theo’s dream of creating a new form of Artificial Intelligence would appear to close to becoming reality – who needs cloning when you have plastic tubes and a shed on the beach?

Luckily, none of it’s gone to his head…

“When I’m alone on that beach struggling with that material to create new life – I think I understand the reality more of the reality of evolution – I try to be a new God – a new nature – I’m the new God.”

]]>http://thefreaky.net/beach-beasts/feed/21769Man Gets Paid by NASA to Sniff Trainershttp://thefreaky.net/nasas-chief-sniffer/
http://thefreaky.net/nasas-chief-sniffer/#commentsWed, 10 Oct 2018 16:49:03 +0000http://thefreaky.net/?p=1268George Aldrich has one of the strangest jobs in the world – he sniffs everything that goes into space – including CDs and trainers. George Aldrich works for Nasa, and at their White Sands Test facility his nose reigns supreme – he is their chief sniffer. “What makes me important to NASA is that I

George Aldrich has one of the strangest jobs in the world – he sniffs everything that goes into space – including CDs and trainers.

“What makes me important to NASA is that I use my sense of smell to protect the astronauts from obnoxious odours in space,” says George. “All the materials that go inside the capsule the astronauts have to go through certain tests So I’m in charge of doing toxicity and odour testing. I’ve used my nose for 38 years to smell stuff before it goes into space.”

Incredibly, the success of entire missions depend on Nasa’s No 1 nasalnaut. Because if George’s nose isn’t performing at the very peak of its abilities – the consequences are serious.

“Here on the ground if there’s some kind of a foul odour, maybe someone was in the bathroom or cut an onion open, it eventually airs out. What is causing that smell to go away is really the dilution of additional air coming in…..but when we’re in the space station or shuttle, there is no additional air, we don’t open a window and get some fresh air in there,” says Susannah Harper the manager of the nasal lab. “What we have to do is here on the ground verify we’re not sending odours up there because once they’re up there, they’re stuck there.”

In 1976, the stench on board a Soviet spacecraft was so bad, that the cosmonauts got sick and the entire mission had to be abandoned a month early.

“It’s very important to control the materials we put inside a space capsule so that we don’t create odours and have to abort a mission, we’ve spent millions of dollars to get this craft off the ground,” says George.

Sometimes, ordinary objects exposed to the higher temperatures of the space station can start to smell…so George has to test them.

“One of our astronauts wanted to take up his CD collection of 20 cds and so NASA had some concern about having that many CDs in a confined space or area so we tested 20 cds – it wound up being fairly toxic,” says George.

So far, the worst US astronauts have had to deal with has been a burning fridge motor, some powerful aftershave, Velcro on a washbag and ink that caused blisters in their noses.

George has carried out over 800 major smell tests for Nasa-and for the foreseeable future – Houston definitely doesn’t have a problem.

Oh, and in case you were wondering – yes, he does have a favourite smell…

]]>http://thefreaky.net/nasas-chief-sniffer/feed/21268Scientists give Octopus MDMAhttp://thefreaky.net/scientists-give-octopus-mdma/
http://thefreaky.net/scientists-give-octopus-mdma/#commentsSun, 07 Oct 2018 10:37:15 +0000http://thefreaky.net/?p=3744Scientists have been giving octopuses the love drug MDMA and observing the results to better understand how the drug works and how it can be used in human therapy treatments. MDMA, the active psychoactive ingredient in the drug Ecstasy, sometimes known as Molly, is known to induce positive social bonding in humans but neuroscientist Gül Dölen,

Scientists have been giving octopuses the love drug MDMA and observing the results to better understand how the drug works and how it can be used in human therapy treatments.

MDMA, the active psychoactive ingredient in the drug Ecstasy, sometimes known as Molly, is known to induce positive social bonding in humans but neuroscientist Gül Dölen, who studies social behavior at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, wanted to know more about how it works so he conducted a novel experiment with octopi.

With the help of octopus expert Eric Edsinger, from the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Mass., Dolen allowed 4 octopuses to swim in a bath of dissolved MDMA for 20 minutes and then observed their subsequent behaviour. After their Ecstasy bath they were placed in a tank with a chamber either side of it.In the left chambers was a Chewbacca Star wars toy that they could paly with and to the right was a flower pot under which was another octopus. The pot had hoels in it so the octopuses could see and smell each other.

Octopuses are notoriously shy creatures that do not interact socially unless they are mating. Without their MDMA bath the octopus would choose the chamber with the Star Wars toy but when dosed up on MDMA they chose to communicate and interact with the octopus hiding under the flower pot.

The octopus on Ecstasy appeared “floaty and relaxed, hugging the flowerpot” says Dölen.This is further evidence that MDMA enhances sociability although this octopus behaviour won’t surprise anyone who has seen clubbers high on MDMA hugging each other.

“As far as the behavioral traits, the octopuses being more prosocial, it does support what we are seeing therapeutically,” says Allison A. Feduccia, form the Califoria based Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies, and is also the author of a pilot trial of MDMA-assisted psychotherapy for social anxiety in adults with autism.

An Ecstasy tablet with an octopus logo, consumed by human clubbers. This was not given to the octopus in the experiment. They were given a bath with MDMA dissolved in it.